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LAST DAYS OF BELLE STARR

By Eric PARKINSON

HANNOVER HOUSE - as SALES All rights

Western - Production 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Western, True Story, Biography
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Eric PARKINSON
- Writer(s)
- Eric PARKINSON, Jay CASEY
- Producer(s)
- Chris LARGE, Lee PFEIFER
- Synopsis
- Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr – better known as BELLE STARR “The Bandit Queen” – was considered to be one of the Old West’s most notorious legends, and perhaps the most famous woman in American folklore.
  
  But history has not been thorough in its description of this complex character and the noble circumstances that inspired many of her transgressions. Infamously outspoken and strongly opinionated, Belle Starr became a unique bridge between the white man’s world and the displaced Native Americans who had been relocated into the Oklahoma Territory. Her marriage to Cherokee rancher SAM STARR (and following Sam’s death, her subsequent marriage to his brother JIM JULY STARR) set in motion her most valiant and final act as she fought to stop the Indian Appropriations Act that was designed to take away land from the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. Just two months after her unsolved murder in an ambush, over 2-million acres of land was put up for grabs in the infamous Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889.
  
  Belle Starr tells an inspiring story of a woman’s struggle to overcome insurmountable obstacles of culture, poverty, misogyny and greed. She was no angel, and she was not innocent of all crimes. But she was a tough and principled character who lost her life pursuing the cause of protecting the Indian Territorial lands.